This is How We Look to the Neighbours
Here’s a fascinating photograph showing how Earth appears from Saturn. The image was taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. We’re that blue dot just below the bottom ring. We are indeed…
Zimmerman helps family escape overturned car in Sanford, Fla
Oh! Really! It sounds like a made up story to show that Zimmerman is a great guy. There is no picture of the overturned car or passengers he saved. Maybe…
Your Digital Future
Highlight Image: Highlight Caption: …You deserve a fair digital future. But what should it look like? Highlight Link: http://www.openmedia.org/DigitalFuture
6268…What To Name The Baby
Best comes from The Milky Show on Ottawa’s BOB FM. WFDS
Mike Duffy shows his dance moves
Picture is a little grainy. Duffy was not co-operating. 🙂
6267…Poverty In Canada: Shame
Andrew Coyne had a piece in The National Post yesterday about how the poverty line is at its lowest number since the peeps at Stats Can have been keeping track…
How to Run a Sustainability Event at Work: Do’s and Don’ts
Running a green event at work is a great way to engage employees on sustainability, which in turn can bring great bottom line rewards. LoyaltyOne, for example, dramatically reduced their…
July 23:A slow day in the world..I mean s l o w….
On the op ed page, the one that is supposed to stimulate thought, deepen understanding, etc., Alan Cochrane tells us a a story about his doggy-woggy. As for news in…
Loren Duncan Explains How CVRD Directors Made Decisions on Salaries
CVRD Director Loren Duncan explains CVRD Salaries and Increases Loren Duncan is a seasoned veteran of the CVRD Board Table who has been there through the changeover that followed the…
Did Stephen Harper Tell Premier Brad Wall To Tone Down Any Talk About Abolishing The Senate?
We have a bit of a political mystery in Saskatchewan today. Recently, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall stated very clearly that he had changed his mind on the Canadian Senate. Rather…
To the polls!
Needless to say, it’s great news (as well as a pleasant surprise) that Regina will get a referendum on a proposed P3 wastewater treatment plant. And kudos to Regina Water…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Duncan Cameron discusses how the G20 is dancing around the problem of corporate tax evasion. The Economist issues a call to action…
Our Hands Are Not Entirely Clean Either
Last evening I wrote a very brief post with a link to pictures depicting the violence that ensued in St. Petersburg, Russia recently at a small gay pride gathering. I…
Suburbia Gone Wild
The idealized version of the American suburb has spread around the world and can be found in nearly every country. The banality of the spread has been ignored by artists,…
RCMP move Duffy investigation to PMO as those with knowledge relocated
A few years ago, we were treated to a new low in Canada when the RCMP had to raid the offices of the Conservative Party of Canada in relation to…
UARB: “substantial uncertainty” about Nalcor supply of market-priced energy #nlpoli
You can read the full decision by the UARB (pdf) but here are some points to note. Right off the bat, you will see in the full report that Nova…
Your Daily Nazi: Nazi Treasure To Remain In Canada
…at least for now. I’ve written about Robert McCorkell (or McCorkill) a few times. He was a Canadian chemist with White Nationalist leanings, and when he died he bequeathed $1,000,000…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, July 23, 2013: Did lawyer try to run down judge he’d targeted in blog posts? Top state…
Parsing Noblesse Oblige.
Travelling around the world building linkages and creating cooperation in the world-wide research effort to cure multiple sclerosis was an eye-opener in terms of understanding charity. In North America, we…
Bernie Farber Has Advice
Now that Jason Kenney has left his position as Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Bernie makes some suggestions to his successor, Chris Alexander: Refugees – Remove Hungary and Mexico…